Paintsville High School

Set in Paintsville, Kentucky, Paintsville High School is a low-enrollment high school, one of the schools within Paintsville Independent. It teaches 318 students across grades 7 through 12. By comparison, Kentucky's public schools average about 558 students each, so Paintsville High School sits 43% smaller than that benchmark.

Paintsville Independent comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 752 students; Paintsville High School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Paintsville High School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (95%). Other groups include 2% Hispanic, 2% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Paintsville High School reports 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. About 47% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Johnson County runs at roughly 61%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Paintsville High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.5%, the actual is 46.3%, a residual of -1.2 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Johnson County indicate median household earnings sit near $44,904, about 17% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 16%. Paintsville High School is one of 14 public schools in Johnson County (combined enrollment of about 4,044 students).

Paintsville Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Paintsville High School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 53.5%.

The campus sits in a town-center setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Paintsville High School's enrollment has edged down 12% since 2018, when it stood at 362 (now 318). Class-load math has fell: from 15.1:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 in 2025.

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